---
type: "Bill"
title: "Contracts With Automatic Renewal Clauses."
description: "Contracts With Automatic Renewal Clauses."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 527"
citation: "North Carolina SB 527 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "CONSUMER PROTECTION", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SEN. D. BERGER", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-03-05"
last_action: "2007-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3441caf4-8967-4cea-8c35-27f0117a5a9a"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S527&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "bd36e91c2ece1f8ba3cd9bfa475dd45af9c9fa111a21d0125af56eb4686d69eb"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
---

# North Carolina SB 527 (2007) — Contracts With Automatic Renewal Clauses.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S527v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S527v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S527v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S527v3.pdf)
5. **SL2007-288** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S527v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower
- h amendment 1\Motion 8\To Concur — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Berger of Franklin — cosponsor (person)
- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)
- Cowell — cosponsor (person)
- Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)
- Snow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2007-07-27** Ch. SL 2007-288 `became-law`
- **2007-07-27** Signed By Gov. 7/27/2007 `executive-signature`
- **2007-07-17** Pres. To Gov. 7/17/2007 `executive-receipt`
- **2007-07-16** Ratified
- **2007-07-12** Concurred In H Amend #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-11** Placed On Cal For 7/12/2007
- **2007-07-11** Rec To Concur In H Amend
- **2007-07-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-07-10** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-09** Placed On Cal For 7/10/2007
- **2007-07-03** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2007-07-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-23** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-23** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-05-21** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-05-17** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2007-05-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-06** Ref To Com On Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3441caf4-8967-4cea-8c35-27f0117a5a9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).